Anna Löbbert

Anna Löbbert is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and a non-stipendiary junior research fellow in Law at Jesus College.

She completed her DPhil in Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford, where she was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and a Lincoln College Kingsgate Scholarship. She also holds an MSc in Law, Anthropology and Society from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Philosophy from Freie Universität Berlin.

Her main research interest is the intersection between legal and political imagination. Her current project, Navigating the Imagined State, examines how communities that express profound alienation from state institutions use legal language to imagine and prefigure alternative forms of statehood and identity. Drawing on a qualitative comparative framework, the project investigates the drivers behind the global spread of "pseudolaw" or "conspiratorial sovereignism".

More broadly, her research explores the ways in which diverse communities experience, interpret, and engage with legal systems. Her interests include trust, conflict, democratic resilience, as well as digital and ethnographic methods. 

Before returning to CSLS in 2026, Anna was a research fellow in a project on access to justice at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, where she retains a visiting researcher affiliation.